Rebels fighting to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi have rejected an offer from the Libyan leader to negotiate his exit even as they battled to hang on to early gains in the insurrection. The frontline in east Libya was static on Tuesday, with forces loyal to Col. Gaddafi and rebels manning defences in a stretch of barren coastline near oil terminals between the towns of Ras Lanuf and Bin Jawad, about 550 km east of Tripoli.

ACTOR CHARLIE Sheen was fired on Monday from his top-rated US comedy Two and A Half Men beca-use of his “dangerously self-destructive conduct,” difficulty at work and inflammatory comments to producer

Tokyo: A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 hit off the coast of northeastern Japan on Wednesday, the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) said, but there were so far no reports of

Kandy, Sri Lanka: New Zealand's crushing of Pakistan in World Cup Group A came at the price of an injury to their captain Daniel Vettori which they hope does not prove costly to their long-term tourna

Conway, Massachusetts: Chronically tardy and truant high school students in Fall River, Massachusetts may think they're having a nightmare when they are aroused at sunrise on Wednesday by their princi

London: The ‘three-year glitch’ has replaced the ‘seven-year itch’ as the tipping point where couples start to take each other for granted, according to a new survey.

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Reliance Industries is likely to raise gas output from its Krishna-Godavari basin to 67 million metric standard cubic metres a day (mmscmd) by April, after four more wells start production, the upstream regulator said.

San Francisco: Warner Bros is making some of its films available on Facebook, opening up a new revenue source for the Internet social network and signaling new competition for online entertainment com

New Delhi: Telecoms Minister Kapil Sibal said on Tuesday he and other government officials met with industry officials to discuss various 2G-spectrum related issues.

"A range of issues were discussed

London: The royal family is supposed to burnish Britain's image but Prince Andrew has generated quite a different buzz by consorting with a convicted U.S. pedophile and allegedly having contacts with